Anton Chekhov Quotes

Most popular Anton Chekhov Quotes

Man is what he believes. - Anton Chekhov quote.
Man is what he believes.
— Anton Chekhov

beliefs

The whole of Russia is our orchard. - Anton Chekhov quote.
The whole of Russia is our orchard.
— Anton Chekhov The Cherry Orchard

Russia

Conciseness is the sister of talent. - Anton Chekhov quote.
Conciseness is the sister of talent.
— Anton Chekhov The Reader’s Enncyclopedia

conciseness

Forests are the ornaments of the earth. - Anton Chekhov quote.
Forests are the ornaments of the earth.
— Anton Chekhov Uncle Vanya
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. - Anton Chekhov quote.
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
— Anton Chekhov

marriage

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. - Anton Chekhov quote.
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
— Anton Chekhov Note-Book of Anton Chekhov

loneliness

A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper. - Anton Chekhov quote.
A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper.
— Anton Chekhov Chekhov in My Life: A Love Story

writers

Eyes—the head's chief of police.  They watch and make mental notes. - Anton Chekhov quote.
Eyes—the head's chief of police.  They watch and make mental notes.
— Anton Chekhov Works of Anton Chekhov

eyes

But perhaps the universe is suspended on the tooth of some monster. - Anton Chekhov quote.
But perhaps the universe is suspended on the tooth of some monster.
— Anton Chekhov

nature

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams. - Anton Chekhov quote.
When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
— Anton Chekhov

actors

Any idiot can face a crisis—it's day to day living that wears you out. - Anton Chekhov quote.
Any idiot can face a crisis—it's day to day living that wears you out.
— Anton Chekhov

life

When you read proof, take out adjectives and adverbs wherever you can. - Anton Chekhov quote.
When you read proof, take out adjectives and adverbs wherever you can.
— Anton Chekhov

parts of speech

A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other. - Anton Chekhov quote.
A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
— Anton Chekhov
Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals renders the goals themselves despicable. - Anton Chekhov quote.
Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals renders the goals themselves despicable.
— Anton Chekhov

goals

I have in my head a whole army of people pleading to be let out and awaiting my commands. - Anton Chekhov quote.
I have in my head a whole army of people pleading to be let out and awaiting my commands.
— Anton Chekhov

why I write

A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings. - Anton Chekhov quote.
A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.
— Anton Chekhov
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. - Anton Chekhov quote.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
— Anton Chekhov Letters of Anton Chekhov

literature

There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. - Anton Chekhov quote.
There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.
— Anton Chekhov

science

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. - Anton Chekhov quote.
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
— Anton Chekhov

technology

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. - Anton Chekhov quote.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
— Anton Chekhov

love

There are plenty of people in the world, solitary by temperament, who try to retreat into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail. - Anton Chekhov quote.
There are plenty of people in the world, solitary by temperament, who try to retreat into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.
— Anton Chekhov The Little Trilogy
A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty. - Anton Chekhov quote.
A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty.
— Anton Chekhov
Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their plowing of the soil.  The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight like the strings on a double-bass, and a fly settles on his flanks and tickles and buzzes. - Anton Chekhov quote.
Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their plowing of the soil.  The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight like the strings on a double-bass, and a fly settles on his flanks and tickles and buzzes.
— Anton Chekhov et. al.

critics

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. - Anton Chekhov quote.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
— Anton Chekhov

environment mankind